Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have taught me to read the fires of meaning but I am inadequate . |
| 2 | ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up . |
| 3 | ‘ You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the Throne . |
| 4 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 5 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 6 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 7 | The Colonel had trusted him to rid the Chairman of the darts of the writer with the poisoned pen . |
| 8 | Or why did Stef kidnap well I , you know I ca n't understand this girl , because she 's been in er , I mean she must of seen him when , when he 's approached her to buy the house |
| 9 | For once we were carrying neither wine nor spirits on Wavebreaker , for Jackson Chatterton 's drug clinic had utterly forbidden us to offer the twins any alcohol , saying that any mood-altering drug could hamper the success of a detoxification programme . |
| 10 | But the committee have approved the idea in principle and have instructed me to investigate the matter further . ’ |
| 11 | Unfortunately , it was his high principles that had obliged him to reject the daughter he loved ; a sad deed that had left its mark on him . |
| 12 | The power that had selected him to fulfil the prophecy . |
| 13 | The disconcerting truth was that , unless it was a brain scan to determine what in the world had possessed her to behave the way she had just now , she had no idea at all what she needed … |
| 14 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 15 | But the people had done it to teach the man a lesson . ’ |
| 16 | The book 's title comes from Psalm 60 : ‘ Thou has shewd thy people hard things : thou has made us to drink the wine of astonishment ’ . |
| 17 | It has stirred us to see the Africans raise their own fares , communally and by hard work . |
| 18 | Analysis of silver ingots from Troy II has shown them to equal the standard of purity of Roman refined silver . |
| 19 | He put me on the committee and now they 've persuaded me to open the thing . ’ |
| 20 | The four soldiers , who are now all stationed in Germany but were then in Bordon , each said in evidence that it was this incident which had persuaded them to leave the pub . |
| 21 | But they did not realise that they were making errors ; the subjects were convinced that hypnosis had actually helped them to remember the poem accurately . |
| 22 | He thought Jibril had probably used them to confuse the chase . |
| 23 | I 've learnt so much from other families in the same situation and it 's helped me to accept the realities . |
| 24 | The polytechnic handbook which I used was not much help and my tutor has told me to ask the librarian for help . |
| 25 | Has there been a time when someone has helped you to see the world in a different way ? |
| 26 | It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed . |
| 27 | Charles 's best general , Lord George Murray , had persuaded him to take the south-west route into England , to keep the Pennines between himself and Field Marshal Wade , and the Jacobites therefore advanced on Carlisle , while the deputy-mayor and clergy observed their approach apprehensively through ‘ a very large spying glass ’ from the cathedral tower . |
| 28 | Her love for him was intense and her sense of loss was as great when he was tragically killed in a crash on the way to visit her in New York a matter of months after winning the world middleweight title ; Piaf had persuaded him to make the trip . |
| 29 | She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place . |
| 30 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |